Rae Dunn – #1 Nurse – Flower Shop
/“Exhausting”
I acquired this hefty, pleasant smelling bar of Rae Dunn soap from my cheap soap pusher secret source (TJ Maxx) without realizing I had already acquired another Rae Dunn soap—so I was hoping I liked it. I do. But to get to the bottom of this product has been exhausting. The full name is Rae Dunn #1 Nurse Flower Shop Scented Hand & Body Soap. Too much! The ingredients list is almost shorter—being pretty much all aboveboard stuff. The only real mystery there is “Parfum (Fragrance)”—as I’d like to know what the fragrance is. It is definitely floral—but what flower? An expert could tell—I cannot—even though I used to work at a flower shop. Deliveries, you know. This soap brings back those days. I’m thinking it almost reminds me of funeral flowers—which were, what? A lot of gladiolas—but were those the smelly ones? I don’t know. Maybe it’s appropriate, right? Nurse. Hospitals. But a nurse can be any caretaker, anything that is nurturing even. Unless it is “nursing” a beer—which is a usage I despise. I looked up Rae Dunn on the big computer—indeed, a person, a woman, seemingly primarily an artist, ceramics, sculpture, etc. So why the soap? It’s possible that the art here is merely the font—which is the indicator of a brand. Then sold via the Esty. It occurs to me that *I* could have a line of soap, and why not? Ray Speen Soap! Patchouli would be the place to start. Maybe there could be one that’s the most patchouli of all the patchouli soaps in the world. But where would we sell it? I tried having an Esty store, once—before I realized Etsy is so vast, it has reached global saturation—meaning that if every single person in the world simultaneously visited a different Esty shop, there would still be Esty shops neglected. How did this come to be? Maybe I could email Rae Dunn and ask her how to become a brand. One Ray/Rae to another. For some reason I don’t think my inbox would see satisfaction anytime soon. So, I’ll stick to the soap reviews. Lovely, soft, and floral—could possibly be evoking death—but that’s okay. Death is part of life.
Soap Review No. 148